Improvement in pen-holders



' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

VILLIAM H. TOW'ERS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PEN-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 36,972, dated November 1S, 1802.

To all whom t may concern.-

'Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. TowERs, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pen-Holders; and I do hereby1 declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the saine, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

Figure 1 is a front view of the improved holder with pen attached. Fig. 2 is a section through the center of the saine. Fig. 3 is a section at the red line l 2 of Fig. 2.

Similar letters in the figures refer to corresponding parts.

This invention consists in surrounding the lower end of the pen-holder handle with a tube oi' absorbent material in such a manner as to enable the same to hold the pen, and by its absorbent character prevent the ink therefrom or from the mouth of the ink-stand soil ing the fingers in writing. The end of the handle A is reduced in size to admit of the tube B, which is placed over it, being brought to about the size of the ordinary handle at this part. The said tube B may be formed of letting-paper of the required thickness, felt, or any other absorbant and flexible material, and extends up the handle the required dis-l tance to receive the grasp of the fingers when writing. The pen C is inserted and firmly held between the tube B and handle A, the tube yielding for this purpose, as in the case of the inda-rubbertube pen-holder.

By the employment of a tube of the character described it is obvious that when the pen is dipped so far in the ink as to also dip the end of the handle therein, or when ink gets on the holder from the sides of the mouth of the ink-stand, or otherwise, the ink will be instantaneously diffused and absorbed by the tube, so as to dry it entirely up, and thereby prevent it from soiling the lingers of the person using the holder.

I do not claim the employment of a flexible tube for a pen-holder, as this is an old device; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Forniing said tube B of blotting-paper. felt, or other absorbent material, so as to enable it to act in the double capacity of a pen-holder and preventive to the soiling of the ngers of the person using it, substantially as herein set forth.

WM. H. TOVERS.

NVituesses:

E. MAHER, H. J. BOAEMAN. 

